Promised Land State Park

I have been taking my family here for a few years now and stay in The Pines, which is a really old and rustic camping area, but a really short walk to the main beach. Just cross the bridge by the dam and you are at the boat rental shack. Go past that, follow the path by the cottages and make the first right and you are right at the Lake Store where they have everything you might need while camping and a good ice cream stand too! If you don't make the right towards the store, you run into Conservation Island, which is just a great place to hike around. No bikes allowed on the island and what you bring to the island you leave with. It is a very clean island with nice trails and some benches to sit and enjoy the beautiful views from.

Pickerel point is beautiful, modern and has it's own beach but a little to far from everything to let the kids hike off on their own because the road there can get busy. If you stay at the Pines and really need to shower, you can take a quick drive over to Pickerel and use the really nice facilities they have over there.

The camp host and park staff and friendly and professional. If your neighbors are being too loud at night (quiet hours start at 9 PM), tell the camp host and the rangers will have a talk with them. If they keep it up, they will be asked to leave. So if you are planning a loud late night get together, forget it. Strumming a guitar quietly or telling stories around the fire are OK.

Alcohol is not allowed, but there is so much to enjoy that you really don't need it. There is a bar or two on the main road you can go have a few before bed, but I've never been in them.

There are trails everywhere to hike. The one by Lower Falls is a favorite, but get a map of the trails from the office and find out for yourself. We just discovered a trail when hiking with the ranger if you drive past Pickerel Point and park by the boat launch that has a great creek to splash around in and catch crawfish. Oh yeah, the rangers run a lot of hikes and other events for the kids. Bring binoculars if you want to see the Bald Eagles because the loaners tend to go fast.

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Have been here a couple of time and have loved it. This is a great state park with tons to do. They have great camping, both tent and RV/trailer, Great Lakes to fish/kayak/boat on and awesome, well makes hiking trails.

The campsites and restrooms are well maintained. All of my interactions with the park rangers have been fantastic. This is an easy drive off I-84 and the signage to get around is great.

Definitely a place to hit if you are looking for a getaway.

Great food. Great staff. Had a wonderful time and the people from the area were the nicest.

Love the hikes and my dogs enjoy the exercise. Gorgeous place to go for walks. There's plenty of stuff to do camping parking areas, the beach, horseback, riding, bike, riding, etc..

First off -they need better signage for the campground. We did not know we were supposed to go to the park office. It looks like an office for the Department of Resources to use and says nothing about the campground on the main road.

HUGE, private sites but they are short. Anything over 30' wouldn't fit on most of the sites. Well kept campground with fire pit, grill and picnic table. Level and wooded. Can definitely tell it was built when longer RV's were just a dream! We didn't get any pictures here because it rained the entire time we were there. Enjoyed the quiet!

We camped here September 20-23, 2021. Site #329. We never had any contact with any of the staff here. The park office was closed both times we tried to visit. We did have contact with the camp host for having our dogs off leash while we got them out of the Jeep and in to the camper. I thought this was a little extreme especially since we were the only camper at that end of the campground and it was for less than a minute. Extreme. Highly Recommend if you are tent camping or less than 30 feet long.

We love coming to Promised Land State Park. We camp here whenever we can. The site are really nice. Would recommend it to anyone who likes to camp but it's to get a site at times

This is a great campground. The road on the campground is very narrow but we were able to navigate to our site. The sites are large once you get in. Our travel trailer is 32 feet long and our truck is 22 feet long. We are rv newbies and we were able to back in. The park is great to walk or hike.

Went here in the morning on an otherwise hot day. Was great! Nice little sandy area of the lake to play in. There was a roped off section in the water that slowly goes to 3 or 4 feet. It was perfect to take our toddler wading and kicking around in the water.

There was plenty of parking for the size of the park, but I think the beach area was getting a little crowded when we left around lunch time.

Bathrooms were really good for a park. They also had free cold showers and cheap warm showers.

Looking forward to going again.

We stopped for 1 night. Stayed @Beechwood #410. Perhaps other sections are different. The person who checked us in? It's like we were bothering him. Not the best way to greet visitors.

*Moss on the parking pad so thick it's a slipping hazard.
*Grass hadn't been mowed nor had any trees been trimmed.
*Which leads me to my next point; the fire ring was directly under a low hanging tree. If it hadn't been raining I'd be leery of using it.
*Crowded, small sites. 19' trailer with a car felt cramped.
*Water? Good luck. 3 spigots for 100 camp sites.

I'll boondock in a Walmart parking lot or highway rest area before I go back.

The worst in the whole country.
Tried to call several times to make a reservation and nobody picked up the phone so we drove to the place hoping they would have a free spot and arrived to the office and found two people in the office. We were charged a 6 dollar reservation fee even if we were walk ins with no reservation. Not worth for 38 dollars, we got to our site and it wasn't quite level but we managed. There was no water, for these people water means one spigot for everybody in the campground and it wasn't even working the next morning because temps dropped to 30 and the one spigot was frozen! If I had known I had no water in my site I would have filled my tank the afternoon I got here. It was only the middle of October so later in the fall it must be frozen permanently, good luck!

Had to go out in the middle of the night 4 times to flip the switch to the 30 amp fuse. At the fourth time I got my 50 amp and reduced it to 30 and finally that fixed the problem. I have no electrical problems ever so it had to be the 30 amp fuse.

Not coming back ever, regardless of the name, not even for one night

My husband and I came to Promised Land Lake to canoe. Neither of us had ever been to this lake, so we just followed our GPS and it took is right to where we needed to go. There were also signs around telling you where the beach and mooring area was, which was helpful and reassuring.

We arrived at 9 am on a Saturday, and the joint was EMPTY AS HELL!!!! I think we saw two other people out on the entire lake the whole time we were there! It was crazy, but enjoyable for us. I was really happy we hadn't gone to another state park (like Ricketts Glen) because I know for a fact that those places would have been packed at that time.

The thing about this lake that I didn't know going into our adventure is that the lake is FILLED WITH TREES!!! There are living, full-grown evergreen trees all in the water. It's freaky as hell, and I can't imagine for a second swimming in this lake with all the stuff right beneath the surface. For canoeing, it was fine. Well, let me revise that. There were two occasions when our canoe either ran over a giant tree stump or got caught on a tree stump and we had to use our oars to push off of it. The bottom of our canoe was scratched a bit, and you could hear the boat rolling over the tree branches throughout most of our trek.

The other good thing about this lake is that you can only take electric motor boats onto the water (not gas). This keeps things quiet, so I'd imagine if you rented a house on the water, you'd really enjoy the serenity.